Bug 1006468

Summary: libiscsi initiator name should use vm UUID
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini>
Component: qemu-kvmAssignee: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Version: 7.0CC: acathrow, hhuang, juzhang, pbonzini, sluo, virt-maint, xuhan
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Fixed In Version: qemu-kvm-1.5.3-13.el7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-06-13 11:21:31 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Paolo Bonzini 2013-09-10 16:34:03 UTC
The virtual machine UUID has the right characteristics for an initiator name.  However, QEMU is not using it.

The initiator name can be found with "tgtadm --lld iscsi --mode target --op show", for example:

    I_T nexus information:
        I_T nexus: 9
            Initiator: iqn.2008-11.org.linux-kvm:vmname alias: 
            Connection: 0
                IP Address: 127.0.0.1

Sample QEMU invocations:

qemu-kvm \
  iscsi://127.0.0.1/iqn.2003-01.org.linux-iscsi.san01.x8664:sn.05135a0e4a11/1 \
  -vnc :1 -m 512 -S -name vmname

     => initiator name should end with "vmname"

qemu-kvm \
  iscsi://127.0.0.1/iqn.2003-01.org.linux-iscsi.san01.x8664:sn.05135a0e4a11/1 \
  -vnc :1 -m 512 -S -uuid `uuidgen` -name vmname

     => initiator name should end with the UUID

qemu-kvm \
  iscsi://127.0.0.1/iqn.2003-01.org.linux-iscsi.san01.x8664:sn.05135a0e4a11/1 \
  -vnc :1 -m 512 -S -uuid `uuidgen`

     => initiator name should end with the UUID

qemu-kvm \
  iscsi://127.0.0.1/iqn.2003-01.org.linux-iscsi.san01.x8664:sn.05135a0e4a11/1 \
  -vnc :1 -m 512 -S -uuid 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 -name vmname

     => initiator name should end with "vmname"

Comment 2 Paolo Bonzini 2013-09-12 17:49:43 UTC
Upstream commit 5accc8408f2dac1e00d888e4fe75e6174ba2a940.

Comment 3 Miroslav Rezanina 2013-11-05 08:39:34 UTC
Fix included in qemu-kvm-1.5.3-13.el7

Comment 5 Xu Han 2013-11-26 09:38:02 UTC
Reproduce this bug with component:
qemu-kvm-rhev-1.5.3-12.el7.x86_64

Steps:
1. boot guest using libiscsi backend.

-> Scenario 1, set '-name'.
# /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -M pc -m 4G -vnc :1 -monitor stdio -drive file=iscsi://$iscsi_server_ip/iqn.2013-11.com.example:storage.disk1.juli.xyz/1,if=none,id=iscsi -device ide-hd,drive=iscsi,id=disk -S -name iscsi-initiator-test

-> Scenario 2, set '-uuid' and '-name'.
# /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -M pc -m 4G -vnc :1 -monitor stdio -drive file=iscsi://$iscsi_server_ip/iqn.2013-11.com.example:storage.disk1.juli.xyz/1,if=none,id=iscsi -device ide-hd,drive=iscsi,id=disk -S -uuid `uuidgen` -name iscsi-initiator-test

-> Scenario 3, set '-uuid'.
# /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -M pc -m 4G -vnc :1 -monitor stdio -drive file=iscsi://$iscsi_server_ip/iqn.2013-11.com.example:storage.disk1.juli.xyz/1,if=none,id=iscsi -device ide-hd,drive=iscsi,id=disk -S -uuid `uuidgen`

-> Scenario 4, set '-uuid 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000' and '-name'.
# /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -M pc -m 4G -vnc :1 -monitor stdio -drive file=iscsi://$iscsi_server_ip/iqn.2013-11.com.example:storage.disk1.juli.xyz/1,if=none,id=iscsi -device ide-hd,drive=iscsi,id=disk -S -uuid 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 -name iscsi-initiator-test

2. check initiator name on iscsi server.
# tgtadm --lld iscsi --mode target --op show

Results:
Scenario 1,
        I_T nexus: 304
            Initiator: iqn.2008-11.org.linux-kvm:iscsi-initiator-test
            Connection: 0

Scenario 2,
        I_T nexus: 305
            Initiator: iqn.2008-11.org.linux-kvm:iscsi-initiator-test
            Connection: 0

Scenario 3,
        I_T nexus: 306
            Initiator: iqn.2008-11.org.linux-kvm
            Connection: 0

Scenario 4,
        I_T nexus: 307
            Initiator: iqn.2008-11.org.linux-kvm:iscsi-initiator-test
            Connection: 0

Verify this bug with component:
qemu-kvm-rhev-1.5.3-19.el7.x86_64

Same steps as above.

Results:
Scenario 1,
        I_T nexus: 309
            Initiator: iqn.2008-11.org.linux-kvm:iscsi-initiator-test
            Connection: 0

Scenario 2,
        I_T nexus: 310
            Initiator: iqn.2008-11.org.linux-kvm:34f31ce4-9347-40ca-a0bb-62109f8cb8ae
            Connection: 0
(qemu) info uuid 
34f31ce4-9347-40ca-a0bb-62109f8cb8ae

Scenario 3,
        I_T nexus: 311
            Initiator: iqn.2008-11.org.linux-kvm:a03340b5-d19a-4186-a2c1-f5431a9401fa
            Connection: 0
(qemu) info uuid 
a03340b5-d19a-4186-a2c1-f5431a9401fa

Scenario 4,
        I_T nexus: 312
            Initiator: iqn.2008-11.org.linux-kvm:iscsi-initiator-test
            Connection: 0


Base on these test results above, this bug has been fixed.

Comment 7 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 11:21:31 UTC
This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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